In this podcast episode, Jennings Anderson, a research scientist at Meta, discusses the Overture Maps Foundation, a downstream product of OpenStreetMap.

He explains his background in open map data and his interest in studying collaboration within the...

100 billion Points Every Day

100 billion is a very large number, let's say that I gave you a spreadsheet with 100 billion rows in it, each row consisted of five columns Latitude, Longitude, Device ID, A Timestamp, and a column telling the name of the...

This is an interview with a senior data scientist from Hub Ocean, a platform that aims to unlock and unite ocean data.

Hub Ocean - as the name suggests is a hub for ocean data 

Now we have talked about these kinds of data hubs before on the podcast -...

How do we get data from a satellite down to Earth? How do we task a satellite? 

Today the answer is likely to be via radios and a system of downlink sites or ground stations. As the satellites pass overhead or within “line of sight” data can be sent ...

There is a general understanding that it is becoming increasingly difficult to extract meaning from all the data we are collecting without using AI.

 

But what is AI, and how did we end up in a situation where it is identifying wolves from dogs base...

So why would anyone want to put alot of data into a browser? Well, for a lot of the same reasons that edge computing and distributed computing have become so popular.

You get the data a lot closer to the user and you don’t have to pay for the compute...

Sounds like a great idea right?

 

In this episode, Paul Ramsey explains why you shouldn't ... unless you want to ... and how you can ... if you have to.

 

You can find Paul's blog here: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/about

 

Previous episodes with Pau...

I am sure you have heard of ChatGPT by now so the hope of this episode is to give you some more context about what is it built on and how it works.

 

To do that I invited Daniel Whitneck back on the podcast 

You can connect with Daniel here

https://d...

A knowledge graph is a network of relationships between real work entities and in this episode, you will learn how and why knowledge graphs might be a better choice than spatial joins! 

 

Further listening!

The H3 Indexing System

https://mapscaping.c...

Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers and systems to derive meaningful information from digital images. 

 

You might think that this is exactly what we are doing in earth observation but there are a few imp...